Computer stuff-ups hobble US ICBM arsenal

Yanks might have difficulty incinerating the planet

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The US Air Force Audit Agency has discovered numerous failures in a computerized maintenance scheme used by nuclear missile bases ironically called the Improved Maintenance Management Program (IMMP), according to a story by the Utah-based Deseret News.

Poor training has been blamed for the shortcomings, and the Air Force Space Command has promised to do a better job of educating its personnel in using the computer system and maintaining its inventory data accurately.

Until this is resolved there will be a significant obstacle if the USA, in the solemn discharge of its international leadership role, should decide to drop the curtain on Planet Earth. The defense contractor responsible for the buggy system was not named, but it will have a lot to answer for if a few microbes escape incineration and manage to start this crazy cycle of life and death all over again. ®